At first glance these halfling variants would appear very hostile and brutal. However, on closer observation I had noticed the kindness and protectiveness displayed to each other and to those they would call a friend.

Many of the tails that have left this hellish place are true. A newborn child is placed outside on a rack for a full day. If it survives, it is then cared for, if not it is discarded. Children grow up learning to fight and are often placed in positions where food only comes to the winners. These lessons, as brutal as they may sound teach the young valuable lessons about life. No child is starved, and they do not fight to the death, the contests are stopped long before that can happen.

Border disputes are common between the villages. Most of these villages are clan based and are open to family feuds. Some of these disputes have lasted for several generations and can start back up with the smallest of spark. The most common disputes are over hunting and fishing rights, failure to follow an agreement, substandard items given as part of trade deals or the insulting, injury or death of a prominent clan member by another clan.

As a clan, they ensure everyone is fed, everyone is clothed, and everyone is housed. They will work hard to protect every member of their clans, even if they do not like the person or out right hate them, they will protect that person no matter the cost, just because the person is a member of the clan.

All the villages have a strong dislike for the dwarves and consider the half-orcs as weak and they detest weakness. If there is a fault of these halflings, they lack humility and kindness to those outside of their clans and especially to any races that are not their own. True halfings are not treated any better and for the most part they are treated worse than a human. True dwarves are shunned and mistrusted. True half-orcs are seen with a little more respect. Elves and half-elves are mistrusted to the point of paranoid fear, they never will say why.